DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST MEN: Almost 50%

August 31, 2008

Check out the below link featuring Harry Crouch, executive director of the San Diego Mens Center in California. Harry brings up the unknown fact that in the 2007 national crime statistics report of 1.4 million women as domestic violence victims, 250,000 of those cases were rapes.

So that drops the 1.4 number of actual domestic violence victims closer to 1 million.

The stated number of domestic violence crimes against men is 835,000 -- with no rapes counted in that number (Harry specifically mentions jail rapes).

Current intimate partner domestic violence statistics are stating that domestic violence against men in our country is 30 percent of the cases against women Harry's facts change that to more like 40 to 45 percent -- almost 50 percent.

And yet very little funding is available for domestic violence against men. Something needs to change.

Are you a male who has experienced domestic violence by an intimate partner? Share your story here in the comment section below, so other men can learn about the hidden face of intimate partner violence against men. It's time to put shame aside and call a spade a spade.